For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

I like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially.

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.